What will life be like in the future? Many people are busy making predictions about the future. Scientists and engineers find out how current technology can be further developed. Other scholars are deeply concerned about ecology and the kinds of energy we should use to protect the environment in the future. Writers put their imaginative ideas about the future into science fiction novels. One example is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, which is a story about a scientist who tried to create a new human being. Today science fiction writers write about life on other planets and how human beings can live longer. People from all walks of life are involved in thinking about the future because our survival may depend upon it. 【題組】10 According to the passage, making predictions about the future is_____ .
(A) ridiculous (B) interesting, but not very useful (C) very important (D) dangerous
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Around the world, more and more women are working outside the home. In the United States, around
70 percent of women with children under 18 41 another job besides that of mother and homemaker.
Most 42 in traditional fields for women, such as clerical, sales, education, and service. However, a growing
number choose a career 43 necessitates spending many hours away from home. These women are engineers,
politicians, doctors, lawyers, and scientists, and a few have begun to occupy executive positions in business,
government, and banking, 44 through the so-called glass ceiling.
Nowadays, some women work full time, some part time, and some seek creative solutions 45 flex-time
work schedules and job sharing. Many are single mothers raising children by themselves. But in most cases, one
income in the household is simply not enough, so both parents must work to support the family.
【題組】請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題:
Around the world, more and more women are working outside the home. In the United States, around
70 percent of women with children under 18 41 another job besides that of mother and homemaker.
Most 42 in traditional fields for women, such as clerical, sales, education, and service. However, a growing
number choose a career 43 necessitates spending many hours away from home. These women are engineers,
politicians, doctors, lawyers, and scientists, and a few have begun to occupy executive positions in business,
government, and banking, 44 through the so-called glass ceiling.
Nowadays, some women work full time, some part time, and some seek creative solutions 45 flex-time
work schedules and job sharing. Many are single mothers raising children by themselves. But in most cases, one
income in the household is simply not enough, so both parents must work to support the family.
【題組】45 (A)now that (B)so that (C)even though (D)such as